Autumn Marathon

Ten Years

Yesterday was the 10th anniversary of our family’s move to Brooklyn.  We moved into a rented apartment and the kids started at PS 29. Economically, NYC was enjoying a bull market and the dot.com boom.  I had just started a position at a dot.com myself.  The IT world was concerned about overcoming the “Y2K problem.”

People didn’t know it yet, but all of these things were contributing to an inflationary bubble which would burst over the subsequent 18 months.  It was an exciting time.  Folks made big plans to celebrate the turn of the century.  December 31 turned out to be an interesting day for many, including the virtually unknown Vladimir Putin who, judging from the expression on his face, was just as surprised as the rest of us by the New Year’s eve resignation of his predecessor, Boris Yeltsin.

It has been an eventful decade for all of us and over the next several posts, I’ll devote some thought and a few words to reflecting on all that has happened.